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TIL that Zelda Fitzgerald wrote 'plagiarism begins at home' in response to her husband, F.Scott Fitzgerald, ripping off lines from her diary for his novels.

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RXr8 TIL despite milk being a valuable source of calcium, the countries with the rates of highest milk consumption are also those with the highest rates of Osteoporosis.
d04Q TIL, a year ago, Neptune completed it’s first orbit since it was discovered. That’s over 165 years!
5BvQ TIL that the total GDP of California is greater than the total GDP of Russia
4X80R TIL Nero’s Golden Palace was rediscovered during the Renaissance, when a young man tripped, fell down a hole, and found himself in the cavernous, subterranean rooms of Nero’s palace.
w8y8 TIL there is a residential development in China called Sky City that is a “Faux Paris,” complete with Parisian statues and an Eiffel Tower. The development has few residents and almost no businesses, giving it an abandoned, creepy feel. (pictures)